New preprint from the lab! We dig into the regulatory roles of TEs in the mouse placenta, with some surprising findings. Led by the awesome @smamante.bsky.social. Particular kudos to him for navigating the many twists and turns of the project.
02.02.2026 10:25 β π 44 π 22 π¬ 4 π 1
π¨Our story is published! Same bones but + dissection of MERVLβs role integrating signals from #ZGA factors, & + about pathological DUX4 activation of NOXA #TEsky. Thanks to all revs for their helpful comments improving the ms. Even #rev3 - until they ghosted us π
www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
22.12.2025 12:32 β π 30 π 12 π¬ 0 π 0
Yes true! Or where they part of the problemβ¦ π€£
18.12.2025 15:45 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Iβm not sure itβs a good thing π I miss papers with 3 figures and one finding. Poor person who has to present journal club on this paper!
17.12.2025 14:10 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0
Thank you Rob! π¬π§
02.12.2025 22:12 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Thank you Deborah!
02.12.2025 22:12 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Thanks Antoine!
02.12.2025 20:55 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Thanks Abby!
02.12.2025 20:53 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Thank you!
02.12.2025 20:53 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Thank you for your support Lila!
02.12.2025 16:04 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
π₯°π₯°π₯° thank you. Looking forward to more TEtime together ;)
02.12.2025 16:03 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Very excited to be part of this prestigious programme, thank you @embo.org !
02.12.2025 14:15 β π 27 π 3 π¬ 4 π 0
Congratulations to the new cohort of 28 EMBO Young Investigators! They are joining an international network of more than 800 life scientists β Welcome!
Read the press release here:
https://www.embo.org/press-releases/twenty-eight-group-leaders-become-embo-young-investigators/
02.12.2025 13:06 β π 140 π 32 π¬ 5 π 31
π¨Post open in our lab! Come work on some cool themes involving metabolism, chromatin, early development π€. Pls RT
27.11.2025 14:26 β π 5 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0
MRC Postdoctoral Research Scientists x 6 - MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences
Team Science Project
π£ Weβre hiring 6 new Team Science postdocs!
Our Team Science approach brings together interdisciplinary researchers to tackle questions no single field can solve alone.
Find out more and download our brochure below
20.11.2025 13:43 β π 11 π 14 π¬ 0 π 3
#TEsky
16.11.2025 18:44 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Register now for our one-day symposium at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences on environmental and metabolic control of early development on 4 December 2025!
Spaces are limited, register here: www.symposia.org.uk/courses/stem...
14.11.2025 16:56 β π 7 π 6 π¬ 0 π 0
Spaces filling up for our @bsdb.bsky.social GRT symposium @mrc-lms.bsky.social on environment, metabolism and stem cell development 4th Dec 2025! Updated poster with talk titles below. Register here: www.symposia.org.uk/courses/stem...
Looking forward to seeing you there!
10.11.2025 13:54 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Studentships and PhD training
We have two core PhD programmes - traditional and transdisciplinary. Our PhD students are registered with Imperial and are embedded in our dedicated research facility.
We are launching 11 new #PhD opportunities today!
If you would like to contribute to the research at the LMS apply today!
#medicalscience #lifescience
09.10.2025 13:58 β π 5 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0
We have a new PhD studentship in the lab on the immunogenic roles of transposable elements in paediatric acute myeloid leukaemia! Come and work with us! www.colcc.ac.uk/2026-cyp-phd...
02.10.2025 18:51 β π 8 π 12 π¬ 0 π 0
Worldβs first AI-designed viruses a step towards AI-generated life
Scientists used AI to write coherent viral genomes, using them to synthesize bacteriophages capable of killing resistant strains of bacteria.
Worldβs first AI-designed viruses a step towards AI-generated life. #Nature
Scientists used AI to write coherent viral genomes, using them to synthesize bacteriophages capable of killing resistant strains of bacteria.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
20.09.2025 17:46 β π 13 π 7 π¬ 1 π 1
Head of Bioinformatics - MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences
We are recruiting for a Head of Bioinformatics to lead our Bioinformatics facility
Come be our head of bioinformatics at @mrc-lms.bsky.social !
Our bioinformatics team are closely involved with lots of interesting science and we love working with them. Topics inc. development, cancer, metabolism, aging, TEs (my favourite of course π) #TEsky lms.mrc.ac.uk/work/vacanci...
19.09.2025 08:25 β π 7 π 6 π¬ 0 π 0
Great to see this out in final form. Congrats Abby!
14.08.2025 22:01 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
it appears your low-hanging-fruit phd project wasn't so risk free after all, mr. bond
31.07.2025 14:50 β π 83 π 3 π¬ 1 π 1
Join the #LMS! Our institute is advertising for junior #GroupLeader positions in #Physiology and #Metabolism. Closing date for applications: August 31st!
27.07.2025 09:37 β π 7 π 6 π¬ 0 π 0
Study reveals the hidden benefits of weight loss on fat tissue
Scientists from the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) and Imperial College London have produced the first detailed characterisation of the changes that weight loss causes in human fat tissue by...
A new study, published today in Nature, reveals the hidden benefits of weight loss on fat tissue.
A better understanding of how weight loss leads to health improvements at a molecular level could help inform the development of therapies for diseases such as type 2 diabetes in the future.
09.07.2025 15:19 β π 17 π 9 π¬ 1 π 5
Poster for Genesis Research Trust / BSDB symposium on metabolism and stem cells
π¨Symposium alert! π¨ Next edition of our biennial stem cell symposium is 4th Dec 2025 - focus on metabolism and development. Sponsored by @bsdb.bsky.social. Great lineup of speakers, hosted @mrc-lms.bsky.social in London. Registration is open.
www.symposia.org.uk/courses/stem...
08.07.2025 11:00 β π 16 π 11 π¬ 0 π 1
Paper alert! I am really pleased to share the final version of the work led by Irène Amblard in the team on a regulatory switch controlling Cdx2 expression during posterior body development! #regulatorylogic #devbio @mrc-lms.bsky.social @imperialmed.bsky.social
27.06.2025 15:07 β π 113 π 37 π¬ 18 π 3
MRC Postdoctoral Research Scientist - MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences
The MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) is a biomedical research institute where scientists and clinicians collaborate to advance the understanding of biology and its application to medicine. LMS...
The Chromatin And Development lab are hiring a postdoc!
Come join us; we are a happy and hard working team @mrc-lms.bsky.social in London UK. Projects span the intersection of chromatin and transposon biology in dev't and disease. Email/DM for more info. Pls RT!
lms.mrc.ac.uk/work/vacanci...
26.06.2025 15:18 β π 30 π 31 π¬ 0 π 1
This should almost have an international reach: about what the rainbow flag means for queer people, by Oslo Pride.
28.05.2025 18:55 β π 41 π 15 π¬ 1 π 0
Caffeinated Lecturer Bradford Uni researching germ cell tumours and reproductive biology. Priors at Whitehead Institute, Monash Uni.
Cells forget. Weβre learning how to make them remember. @GENYO University of Granada, Spain. www.landeiralab.ugr.es
Group Leader @theCrick
𧬠Studying human embryo models to better understand development (she/her)
Monthly online seminar series at the intersection of metabolism, developmental biology & organismal physiology. Every 2nd Thursday of the month at 16:00 CET.
Subscribe at: https://forms.gle/Y8QzucogKKrZ6zYv7
Brandeis Biology, Assc. Prof,epigenetic inheritance,protein QC, learning to cope with uncertainty, hoping good coffee helps, thinking about poetry and those who do not have the permission to narrate.he/him http://www.ragunathanlab.org
Biochemist fascinated by visualizing biological processes with the finest spatiotemporal detail; Understand the human immune system to guide novel approaches for combating viral infections and cancer; Postdoc at CissΓ© Lab / MPI-IE
Postdoc at the FMI (@fmiscience.bsky.social) in Basel, interested in chromatin, biochemistry and SINE transposons
π©πΌβπ» Science communication & media relations @embo.org | π Senior Associate @lucycavcoll.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk | π¦ PhD in Molecular Virology |πHeidelberg, Germany | Views my own
https://www.linkedin.com/in/astrid-gall-ab4787138/
Fighting enshittification online and off.
Senior Editor at Nature Communications handling Developmental Biology.
Studying why and how behavior evolves, from mosquitoes to mole-rats | Postdoc/Leon Levy Scholar @Columbia working with Ishmail Abdus-Saboor | PhD @Princeton with Lindy McBride | ιΊ»εΈ/ζ±ε€§ alum π―π΅ | yukihaba.github.io
PhD student in the Joyce lab at Penn
Research Group Leader at FMI, Switzerland | Expert in Gene Expression | Cycling Enthusiast & Rock Climber
Find me on X as @MarcBhler4 or instagram.com/maggi.buehler
Drosophila enthusiast. Assistant Professor of Mol Bio and Biochem at Rutgers U. Runner. Uses brain to think about brains. All around curious person.
Group leader in #Epigenetics. Fascinated by how stem cells work and how our genes make us. Canβt wait to find out what #citrullination is all about. She/her.
membranes, autophagy, lysosomes, cryo-EM and -ET, Parkinson's
News from the Sternberg lab at Columbia University, Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Posts are from lab members and not Samuel Sternberg unless signed SHS. Posts represent personal views only.
Visit us at www.sternberglab.org
Group Leader @igmm-montpel.bsky.social π©βπ¬
Passionate about Development, Epigenetics and Reprogramming ππ§¬π¬
X-chromosome inactivation aficionado!
https://www.igmm.cnrs.fr/en/team/epigenetic-reprogramming-and-mammalian-development/
Developmental biologist and Executive Editor of Development @dev-journal.bsky.social. Part of the Node @the-node.bsky.social and The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social. Own views.
π¨Science Illustrator artbysonhita.com
βοΈScientific Editor & Illustrator @lifescienceeditors.bsky.social
π±Associate Features Editor @ThePlantCell.bsky.social
πPreviously Editor for @cp-molcell.bsky.social @CellPress.bsky.social
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πTkarontoπ¨π¦
